Fort Lewis soldier could face death penalty for Afghan killings

More details from public records are coming to light on Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the 38-year-old, soldier and family man from Fort Lewis allegedly accused of killing 16 Afghans in cold blood.

Other news agencies have dug up past records showing a history of financial issues and legal woes including assault charges on a prior girlfriend resulting in 20 hours of anger management classes and, also a hit-and run accident, when Bales ran bleeding in military clothes into the woods, court records show. He told police he fell asleep at the wheel and paid a fine to get the charges dismissed, the records show as reported in a Huffington Post report.

Bales spent the weekend in pretrial isolation at the Army's Fort Leavenworth, Kan. where Seattle-based criminal attorney traveled to Kansas on Sunday and with plans to meet with him on Monday. Military prosecutors prepared a case that may carry the death penalty according to Sunday's Wall Street Journal report.